Climate averages 1991–2020
Yezhou weather
in August.
A hot, wet month: one of the warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Yezhou: daytime highs average 29.8°C and nights cool to about 22.9°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.
Expect about 131 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes August a wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 15 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Enshi (41 km away). In August its highs average 29.4°C, about as warm as Yezhou, with 159 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Yezhou ranks joint 475th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 187th of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Yezhou is 0.6°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 4.1°C to 25.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 131 mm to 140 mm.
The annual picture
August in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Yezhou climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.1°C1.9°C | 1.9°C | 59 | 11.8 | 10.410 h |
| February | 10.7°C4.0°C | 4.0°C | 64 | 12.5 | 11.111 h |
| March | 15.2°C7.7°C | 7.7°C | 95 | 15.3 | 12.012 h |
| April | 20.7°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 112 | 14.5 | 12.913 h |
| May | 24.5°C17.2°C | 17.2°C | 160 | 15.8 | 13.714 h |
| June | 27.7°C20.9°C | 20.9°C | 201 | 14.7 | 14.114 h |
| July | 29.8°C23.1°C | 23.1°C | 181 | 15.6 | 13.914 h |
| August, selected | 29.8°C22.9°C | 22.9°C | 131 | 13.1 | 13.313 h |
| September | 25.7°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 140 | 12.8 | 12.412 h |
| October | 20.3°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 134 | 13.8 | 11.511 h |
| November | 15.4°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 85 | 12.5 | 10.611 h |
| December | 10.2°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 54 | 11.4 | 10.210 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
August in nearby cities
- Enshi in AugustChina · 41 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 22.7°C · 159 mm rain
- Yong’an in AugustChina · 53 kmHigh 31.5°C · Low 24.4°C · 148 mm rain
- Wushan in AugustChina · 55 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 24.3°C · 206 mm rain
- Chengxiang in AugustChina · 90 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 24.2°C · 166 mm rain
- Lichuan in AugustChina · 90 kmHigh 25.7°C · Low 19.0°C · 230 mm rain
- Wanzhou in AugustChina · 128 kmHigh 32.8°C · Low 25.3°C · 164 mm rain
- Hanfeng in AugustChina · 141 kmHigh 32.3°C · Low 25.1°C · 142 mm rain
- Yichang in AugustChina · 150 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 23.8°C · 161 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Yezhou) is explained once on the Yezhou year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.